This was made even more clear over the weekend as the Noosa Festival of Surfing kicked off in Noosaville, where many avid surfers said cowabunga with their canines in tow – on their surfboards!

Believed to be the world's largest surfing event, it's only polite that pooches would receive an invitation to celebrate the area's point-break waves. And these dogs – well, they make waves of their own: Our jaws dropped when we spotted the longboard skills of this quintet of pooches – count 'em in the photo to the left! – who seem to ride with little-to-no fear. (Can the Frenchie get a leadership award, please?)

But these guys weren't the only ones living the dream. Check out more shots of pups hitting the surf: